Powder puff



E. J. BOYLER.

POWDER PUFF- APPLICATION FILED NOV. 8. 1919.

1,406,439, Patented Feb. 14, 1922.

UNITED STATES PATENT onucs.

EMANUEL J. BOYLER, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOB TO NATHANIEL A.

KALETZKY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

Powmm PUFF.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 14, 1922.

Application filed November 8, 1919. Serial No. 336,647.

der Pufl's, of which the following is a speci- I fication.-

This invention relates to powder puffs, useful for applying a -powder,as a cosmetic or for medicinal purposes, to the skin of the human body.

An object of the invention, among other things, is to provide an efiicient article capa-. le of belng'manufactured at a comparative low cost, and said article is made compact in form and has a reservoir in which the powder to be applied is contained.

According to the present invention, the improved article-is com sed of a bag, substantially circular .in s stricted open neck at the top in a substantially straight and extended portion thereof. A device consisting of a split tubular clip, of a suitable diameter and length and composed of suitable material, such as celluloid for example, is employed to close said open neck. The said device slides on a defined track formed by raisin the edges of said neck and thus tightly c oses the same after the article is filled. In-its closed position,

said device is held in place by engagement with said raised edges. and forms a convenient handle. i

The bag is made of two substantially circular sections of fabric united together at the edges preferably by means of button hole stitching and being substantially circular in shape, manufacture of the article is considerably facilitated.

The fabric of which the said sections is composed should be porous. to some extent to permit contents of the bag to sift thereline 2-2 of Figure 1;

ape, having a re,-

through and preferably said fabric is of a fleecy-nature and washable.

An embodiment ofthe invention is-illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherem-- Figure 1 is an elevation of the complete article;

Figure 2 is a sectional view taken on the Figure 3 is a fragmentary view showing the open neck, and

Figure 4 illustrates the device employed for closing said open neck.

Referring to the drawings the circular sections of fabric of which the bag is composed bear the numerals 1 and 1. 2 represents the continuous circulariedge of the article which is strengthened and re-enforced by button hole stitching whereby the edges of the sections 1 and 1' are united.

The open neck 3 has its edges re-enforced also by stitching and the split tubular fastening device 4, facilitated by the chamfered corners 5,-is engaged with and slides over the ed es of the neck 3, bringing said edges tight y together and holding them thus after the bag is filled with powder represented by reference numeral a I claim- I A container for toilet powder c'om rising incombination a bag-like structure 0 fleecy pervious material provided at the edges about its opening'with a reinforcing stitching forming a laterally projecting bead, and a. combined closure and handle having resilient jaws adapted slidingly to engage the bag beneath said bead thereby to clampthe bag material-and prevent the accidental removal of the closure.

Signed at New Haven in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, this 5f the bag 

